---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950142-22-002029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RRGB"
cik: "0001171759"
company_name: "RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC"
filed_at: "2022-06-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T22:17:33.957844+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Red Robin appoints Cheri Kinder as CAO; base salary $255K, bonus target 35%

## Summary
- Cheri Kinder appointed VP and Chief Accounting Officer effective June 23, 2022.
- She reports to CFO Lynn S. Schweinfurth.
- Prior role: controller and CAO at Fiesta Restaurant Group; interim CFO in 2019.
- Compensation: $255,000 base, $9,000 auto allowance, 35% bonus target, 50% LTI target.
- Initial LTI award of $65,000 and RSU grant of $50,000, both effective July 1, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950142-22-002029
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RRGB
- cik: 0001171759
- company_name: RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC
- filed_at: 2022-06-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000095014222002029/0000950142-22-002029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000095014222002029/eh220266305_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-22-002029
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-22-002029.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950142-22-002029.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Cheri Kinder was appointed as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at RED ROBIN GOURMET BURGERS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On June 23, 2022, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Cheri Kinder to serve as the Company’s Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1171759/000095014222002029/0000950142-22-002029-index.htm

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